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The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism (Japanese: 自閉症の僕が跳びはねる理由～会話のできない中学生がつづる内なる心～, Hepburn: Jiheishō no Boku ga Tobihaneru Riyū ~Kaiwa no Dekinai Chūgakusei ga Tsuzuru Uchinaru Kokoro~) is an autobiography attributed to Naoki Higashida, a largely nonspeaking autistic person from Japan.
In the beginning, Gunji struggles with the students because she hadn't taught autistic children before and didn't know much about autism. Through trial and error, she eventually regains her passion for teaching children. Since she had one year of teaching left to retire, she leaves the school after teaching Hikaru during his fifth grade year.
Normal People Scare Me: A Film about Autism is a 2006 American documentary film about autism, produced by Joey Travolta. [1] The project began as a 10-minute short film co-directed by an autistic teenager named Taylor Cross, and his mother Keri Bowers.
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Social stories model appropriate social interaction by describing a situation with relevant social cues, other's perspectives, and a suggested appropriate response. About one half of the time, the stories are used to acknowledge and praise successful completion of an accomplishment. [6] [7] [8] Social stories are considered a type of social ...
“The next year, as I was still scribbling my own stories, my English teacher (bless you, Mrs. Jacobsen!) introduced me to the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien,” the biography read.
He had 12 out of 13 symptoms of autism. Medical professionals were pessimistic about Raun's condition. [1] The only options offered to the Kaufmans at the time was either institutionalization or involvement in a behavior modification-style program that included aversive therapy. Spanking and electrical shock treatment are two examples for this ...
A story that is about a Czech family with a daughter who is suffering from bipolar disorder. [24] Blepharospasm, 2011 novel by Harutyun Mackoushian. A story that focuses on a boy suffering from anxiety. [25] A Better Place, 2011 [26] novel by Mark A. Roeder. The Heart of Darkness, 2014 novel by Dominic Lyne. Through conversations with his ...